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Urban Hat€monger ? · 04-23-2005, 07:09 PM

The problem I have with most of these new British rock bands is I find a lot of their stuff a bit too samey, It`s nearly all generic guitar rock.

Compare that to say 8-12 years ago when you had the likes of Primal Scream mixing acid house with Stones riffs , Blur making traditional british guitar pop , Belle & Sebastian influenced by the singer songwriters of the 60s & 70s , Suede updating Ziggy era Bowie & T Rex for the 90s , PJ Harvey doing whatever the hell she wanted and so on & so on.

It just seems whenever I hear a new British band i`ll hear a single that I think is pretty good & then buy the album & find all the songs sound exactly the same. There just doesn`t seem to be the diversity in British rock anymore , everybody wants to be Coldplay or Franz Ferdinand

04-23-2005, 07:09 PM	#50 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	The problem I have with most of these new British rock bands is I find a lot of their stuff a bit too samey, It`s nearly all generic guitar rock. Compare that to say 8-12 years ago when you had the likes of Primal Scream mixing acid house with Stones riffs , Blur making traditional british guitar pop , Belle & Sebastian influenced by the singer songwriters of the 60s & 70s , Suede updating Ziggy era Bowie & T Rex for the 90s , PJ Harvey doing whatever the hell she wanted and so on & so on. It just seems whenever I hear a new British band i`ll hear a single that I think is pretty good & then buy the album & find all the songs sound exactly the same. There just doesn`t seem to be the diversity in British rock anymore , everybody wants to be Coldplay or Franz Ferdinand __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.